More big artists are signing up to ply their trade at the major Norwegian festivals this summer, as new albums are released, world tours confirmed, and a desire for sweaty tents and stale beer rises anew in the hearts of the gig-going masses.
Quart and Hove have clearly got a bit of a battle going on. First Hove pitches camp uncomfortably close to Quart, then both go bust but compete to see who can re-animate most spectacularly, and now Hove has confirmed Slipknot for this summer’s bash in a direct response (or so I would like to believe) to Quart’s Marilyn Manson announcement, just to prove that they can outdo their rival in the ‘Look at the passe angry shock-merchant we’ve managed to snap up’ stakes.
Always one to plow its own course, Oslo’s Øya Festival has added to an excitingly burdgeoning roster with the addition of the ‘more famous but not as good as our other headliners’ girl-of-the-moment Lily Allen, whose latest release has just topped charts in the UK. It will be Allen’s first Norwegian appearance.*
*Allen was booked for Øya ‘08 but cancelled on the day due to… illness? Must be some bug keeping both her and Winehouse in bed during that festival.
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One Response to “Lily Allen and Slipknot do Øya and Hove respectively”
Knut Knutson - February 24th, 2009 at 12:07
Both Quart and Hove are creatively bankrupt. They should do the decent thing, shut down and let Øya and Slottsfjell get on with it.